Non-English word count is wrong (possibly)

[mrNo0b]

I have Hebrew text on my page, after debugging this line (ln 36 in classes/TwigReadingTimeFilters.php)
$words = str_word_count(strip_tags($content));
I found out that when I remove the strip_tags method it will give differnt (much more realistic) word count
so for one of the pages I tested it on I had:
12 - with strip_tags()
126 - without strip_tags()
I don't know if there is something wrong with my site language setup or something,
but maybe you can check the plugin...
if you need, here is a Hebrew Lorem Ispum text

btw, here is the Hebrew translation strings:

he:
  PLUGIN_READINGTIME:
    SECOND: שניה
    SECONDS: שניות
    MINUTE: דקה
    MINUTES: דקות

[oleg-sh]

Doesn't work for Russian either. It shows 347 word page as 0 minutes 3 seconds.

I'm not familiar with php but I was able to find a workaround.
I replaced:
$words = str_word_count(strip_tags($content));
with:
$words = count(preg_split('/\s+/', strip_tags($content)));

[stephengmatthews]

Fix suggested by @oleg-sh appears in current release (1.3.0).

[rhukster]

1.4.0 released